Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Platform

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At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. We create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our four products:
Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable. We foster a culture that celebrates authenticity, boldness, debate, and commitment. Our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, allows employees to choose a daily work style that best suits their needs, while intentional in-person moments build collaboration, culture, and connection. We prioritize customer focus, individual flexibility, and community connections.

Growth isn’t just a set of campaigns at Scribd; it’s a system. Millions of readers engage with Scribd, Everand, Slideshare, and Fable. We’re investing in a Growth Platform that accelerates user acquisition, onboarding, retention, and lifecycle marketing across brands. As Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Platform
, you’ll lead a business‑critical platform team inside Growth Engineering. Your team builds the systems and integrations that enable efficient go‑to‑market execution, including landing pages, campaign tooling, tracking and attribution, audience segmentation, experimentation support, and third‑party Mar Tech integrations. You’ll partner closely with Product, Performance Marketing, Partnerships, Data Platform, and Analytics to translate growth strategy into high‑leverage technical capabilities. This high‑ownership leadership role requires a people‑first, deeply technical manager who can set a vision, build a strong team, and deliver platform improvements that measurably impact conversion, retention, and lifetime value.

• Lead the engineering strategy and execution for Scribd’s Growth Platform across acquisition enablement, promotional offer support, audience segmentation, and lifecycle marketing integrations.
• Build and manage a high‑performing full‑stack team, developing engineers while creating a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Stay deeply technical: act as an architectural and execution partner to the Tech Lead and team, driving thoughtful system design, pragmatic tradeoffs, and sustainable delivery.
• Partner closely with stakeholders to translate business goals into roadmaps, prioritize investments, and deliver high‑impact initiatives across multiple brands and channels.
• Lead integrations with paid media platforms and third‑party data exchange tooling to support conversion tracking, offline/online event feeds, audience sync, and campaign measurement.
• Own cross‑channel measurement foundations: champion reliable instrumentation, telemetry, attribution quality, and data‑informed decision making in partnership with Analytics.
• Drive integration and vendor decisions across the Mar Tech stack—evaluating tools, designing integrations, and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Champion engineering excellence in reliability, scalability, code quality, testing, and continuous delivery, so Growth teams can move fast with confidence.

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3–5+ years in engineering management, leading high‑performing teams delivering customer‑facing or platform systems.
• Demonstrated growth impact: you’ve led teams whose work measurably improved conversion, retention, engagement, and/or LTV (ideally in subscription or consumer products).
• Strong technical foundation and architecture depth: guide scalable system design, set quality bars, and lead teams through ambiguity and tradeoffs.
• Experience with growth and marketing systems—SEM, ad platform integrations, attribution/tracking, experimentation frameworks, customer engagement platforms, CDPs, CMS/landing page systems, analytics instrumentation, or marketing APIs.
• Cross‑functional leadership strength: align diverse stakeholders, set clear priorities, and execute in fast‑paced environments.
• People‑first leadership: proven ability to coach, develop, and retain…